?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=A+MDL-based+Model+of+Gender+Knowledge+Acquisition&rft.creator=Marchal%2C+Harmony&rft.creator=Lemaire%2C+Benoit&rft.creator=Bianco%2C+Maryse&rft.creator=Dessus%2C+Philippe&rft.subject=Applied+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.description=This+paper+presents+an+iterative+model+of%0D%0Aknowledge+acquisition+of+gender+information%0D%0Aassociated+with+word+endings+in%0D%0AFrench.+Gender+knowledge+is+represented%0D%0Aas+a+set+of+rules+containing+exceptions.%0D%0AOur+model+takes+noun-gender+pairs+as+input%0D%0Aand+constantly+maintains+a+list+of%0D%0Arules+and+exceptions+which+is+both+coherent%0D%0Awith+the+input+data+and+minimal+with%0D%0Arespect+to+a+minimum+description+length%0D%0Acriterion.+This+model+was+compared+to%0D%0Ahuman+data+at+various+ages+and+showed+a%0D%0Agood+fit.+We+also+compared+the+kind+of%0D%0Arules+discovered+by+the+model+with+rules%0D%0Ausually+extracted+by+linguists+and+found%0D%0Ainteresting+discrepancies.&rft.publisher=Association+for+Computational+Linguistics&rft.contributor=Clark%2C+Alex&rft.contributor=Toutanova%2C+Kristina&rft.date=2008&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6177%2F1%2FcoNLL08.pdf&rft.identifier=++Marchal%2C+Harmony+and+Lemaire%2C+Benoit+and+Bianco%2C+Maryse+and+Dessus%2C+Philippe++(2008)+A+MDL-based+Model+of+Gender+Knowledge+Acquisition.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6177%2F